The new, single, Big Data Europe Community Group

As you'll know, the Big Data Europe Project is designed to support 
organisations active in addressing the 7 societal challenges identified 
by the European Commission. To this end we established a set of 7 W3C 
Community Groups as fora for discussion about what role big data 
technologies may play. After much consideration, the project partners 
believe this was not the correct approach and we have acted accordingly.

1. Primary communication about events related to BDE and each societal 
challenge will be made via a separate mailing list.

2. The 7 W3C Community Groups have been closed and a single new one set 
up. This will be used in a manner much more closely aligned with the 
purpose of all W3C Community Groups which is to foster innovation, and 
in particular, note where future standardisation efforts should be made.

It is not possible, legally or technically, to simply transfer your 
membership of the old CG(s) to the new one. Therefore, you need to join 
the new CG yourself (no one can do this for you). I strongly encourage 
you to do so via
https://www.w3.org/community/bde/

Substantive discussions about the technologies used, the problems faced 
and solutions tried are very welcome via the new CG's mailing list. The 
W3C Community is large, active, and always interested in new ways of 
doing things - let's engage them!

The material from all past groups is archived at
https://www.w3.org/community/groups/past/

This e-mail is Bcc'd to all members of the 7 previously established 
BDE-* Community Groups which are now closed.

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Phil Archer
W3C Data Activity Lead
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/

For Big Data Europe

http://philarcher.org
+44 (0)7887 767755
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Received on Tuesday, 12 April 2016 11:43:57 UTC